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Thanks for all the help guys! I've ordered Corinda/s 13 steps and I'm going to see where to go from there. Thanks again! Simon_Magic

Hi Doctor Magic! I'd suggest getting hold of the Paper Engine by Aaron Fisher, and while they're still available, ONE TWO and iiii by Daniel Madison. I always end up looking back at these books. I'd also suggest the royal road to card magic, but apart from starting me off I haven't...

Sorry AsherF, I just had to ask! I don't want to buy spend money on something when if i had spent just that extra £10 I would have got a better version of the gimmick that is more discreet. If anyone can tell me more but doesn't want to expose, can you PM me? Thanks, Simon_Magic

Hi Guys, There are a few effects that I've seen and would love to do, but they need a swami or boon gimmick. Are these basically the same gimmick, or are they different? I was planning to get the super sharpie, which I thought was a swami, but when I read the description it said that...

After talking to Owen Packard once or twice, he told me the reason they chose not to change the faces was so people could perform tricks that use gaffs with them. Say for instance, if you wanted to do a trick with a double facer, you wouldn't be able to do it as you can't get double facers...

I only get asked that question when i do my balloon swallow. The spectator normally says' you didn't really swallow that, did you?' and I say 'its up to you to belive what you want, but if i told you for certain, where would the mystery be?' If they carry it on, then I say 'give it a few...

Hi Guys, Kevin sent me this document in the hope that it would further my knowledge in the mentalism world. It certainly has, and made mentalism a lot easier for me to get me head round and to get into. Mixed Signals This was the trick that assured me of Kevin’s sure fire effects...

I once got the wrong initials on my arm in stigmata, and when doing a memory deck set, I forgot the cards. Oh yeah, once I was doing professors nightmare, and I pulled on the wron rope. That was a bit embarrasing. Simon_Magic

Mine is signed by the Virts and Bone Ho, but I requested it, and it was on the back of the DVD rather than the front. Simon_Magic

In my opinion I think that slight of hand is great for those of us that can do it, but gaffs and gimmicks add to it. I've just been making up a load of gimmicks, and no I wouldn't use them everyday, but if I build up to it, it creates a great ending to a set. I wouldn't just use gimmicks...

I remembered one! I've recently been using it and I'm sorry that it took me so long. I DM's lecture notes, ONE, he mentions one right at the end of the book in notes. he same trick is also in TWO i think. It is completely away from the deck, which is what your after. hope this helps...

Hi guys, The question is, when do we know we are entering the realms of mentalism? Surely, a prediction effect is a mentalism effect, but if it is done predicting cards does that make it a card trick? I personally have also found that, when performing mentalism as a piece of magic, the...

Hi Matt, The website is up! www.simonmagic.co.uk tell me what you think! Simon

When I have been practising a cut, and it works in front of someone. I feel a sense of achievement that can't be matched. Yesterday I did the Anaconda up to my ear, and it felt so GOOD! Simon_Magic

Although I've never used it, Connected is brilliant. I got mine free at the session one year which was nice. How you get it in the wallet is briiliant and is done on the off beat of something else that is taught on the DVD. Dave Forrests CTW is meant to be the best ever CTW, but I've heard...

I've just started resturant work really, and it took me a year to get here. In January I said to myself that by the end of the year I want to be in any restaurant, and after doing a few freebies and rejections I finally got in! The best advice I can give you is to tell them that you'll...

I think it is all in the trick compared to the reaction. When i do the Ambitious card 90% of the time someone asks to check the deck in case there are 17 5 of Diamonds in the deck. I love collecting cards, and even when i use speciality cards no one says anything. My deck of choice is the...

Go ahead and have high goals, there's nothing wrong with that. Personally I'd love to be the buisiest magician in the UK and eventually have other magicians working for me. But do yourself a favour and shut up! look at what you've written and take all of this thread in if you want to get any...

I think that, going back a few pages that Cardistry isn't a form of self expression unless its a flourish you've come up with yourself. doing Lethal or the Molecule Cut looks good and everyone want to learn it, but if everyone learns it then how can it be self expression? I love flourishes, I...

Hi Guys, I bought the Anaconda I'm trying to learn Hindu Tornado, but it just says to move some of the deck back, and move your wrist forward then backwards quickly. Which packet is meant to move, the top or bottom? and how do you get it to spin? Thanks, Simon_Magic